LEADER 03669nam 2200625 a 450 001 9910789807203321 005 20230725031007.0 010 $a0-674-05946-8 024 7 $a10.4159/9780674059467 035 $a(CKB)2670000000081284 035 $a(OCoLC)709594410 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10456094 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000469411 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11288360 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000469411 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10510982 035 $a(PQKB)10338676 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3300926 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3300926 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10456094 035 $a(DE-B1597)585457 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780674059467 035 $a(OCoLC)1301549533 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000081284 100 $a20100325d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aFugitive justice$b[electronic resource] $erunaways, rescuers, and slavery on trial /$fSteven Lubet 210 $aCambridge, Mass. $cBelknap Press of Harvard University Press$d2010 215 $a1 online resource (378 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-674-04704-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aSlavery and the Constitution -- The Missouri equilibrium -- The compromise of 1850 -- But we have no country -- A traitorous combination -- Prosecution at Independence Hall -- Sir-did you hear it? -- Athens of America -- Kidnapping again! -- The height of cruelty -- Judge Loring's predicament -- Freedom on the Western reserve -- The son betrays and the father indicts -- Votaries of the higher law -- An irrepressible conflict. 330 $aIn this book, Steven Lubet examines, in detail, three trials on the great issue of fugitive slaves in the 1850?s, the fugitive slave statutes, and how the legal system coped or failed to cope with the apparent inconsistencies between the Constitution supporting slavery and its purpose of guaranteeing certain rights to every man. The first case occurred in 1851 when a white Pennsylvania miller named Caster Hanway faced treason charges based on his participation in the Christiana slave riot. The second trial was of Anthony Burns in Boston, and the third case arose out of the 1858 capture of John Price by Kentucky slavehunters in the abolitionist stronghold of Oberlin, Ohio. The fugitive slave trials also provide modern readers with uncomfortable insights into the nature of slavery itself. With sincere conviction, many northern judges ? including some who claimed to oppose slavery ? calmly considered the quantum of evidence necessary to turn a human being into property. This book powerfully illuminates the tremendous bravery of the fugitives, the moral courage of their rescuers and lawyers, and, alas, the failure of American legal and political institutions to come to grips with slavery short of civil war. 606 $aTrials (Political crimes and offenses)$zUnited States 606 $aFugitive slaves$xLegal status, laws, etc$zUnited States 606 $aSlavery$xLaw and legislation$zUnited States 606 $aAntislavery movements$zUnited States 615 0$aTrials (Political crimes and offenses) 615 0$aFugitive slaves$xLegal status, laws, etc. 615 0$aSlavery$xLaw and legislation 615 0$aAntislavery movements 676 $a342.7308/7 700 $aLubet$b Steven$01477287 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910789807203321 996 $aFugitive justice$93692404 997 $aUNINA